Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-03-04
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL,

Gen. James Lorraine Geddes died at the
State Agricultural College at Ames, Iowa, on
the 21st, of pulmonary disease. He was born
in Edinburg, Scotland, in 1907. He won dis
tinction at Shiloh, Vicksburg, Corinth and Mo-
bile. During the past eight years Gen. Geddes
has been connected with the Agricultural Col
lege, a portion of the time as military %instruc-
tor and of late as treasurer.
Gen. Grosvenor, President of the National
Union League, has called a meeting of the Ma
tional Council to be held at the Ebbitt House,
Washington, on Tuesday, March /. 1t is stated
that this will be an important meeting of prom
inent Republicans from all parts of the coun-
try, and that action will be taken on matters of
interest
Jesse W. Fell, who is said to have been
the first man to name Abraham Lincoln for
the Presidency, is lying dangerously i'll at his
home in Normal, III.
The President has vetoed the bill appro-
priating $4,000 for the special distribution of
seeds to the drouth-stricken counties of Texas.
He explains as his reason for disappearing the
measure that he finds no warrant for such ap-
preparation in the Constitution, and does not
OSAASNS SAop eO PONSA oAo outy VI UIC HCuC1d
government ought to be extended to the relief
of individual suffering in no manner related
to the public service or benefit An appropri-
alton of 100000 for this purpose was made
for the current year and will probably be re-
newed for the ensuing year. Two-thirds of the
grain and seed thus provided for is at the dis
posal of the Senators and Representatives,
who might request the Commissioner of Agri-
culture to send the seed to these suffers, if SO
disposed.
Senator Sawyer proposes to amend the
general deficiency bill by directing the secre-
tary of the Treasury to pay a certain steam
ship company a sum equal to 500 and sixty
days rations for every adult negro who shall
emigrate to Africa on it's vessels.
Gov. Church, of Dakota, was inaugurated
on the 18th, Chief Justice Trip administering
the oath.
The Senate of West Virginia has passed
the resolution adopted by the House recently
for the submission of the question of prohib-
iting the manufacture and sale of liquors in
the State, The question will be voted on in
November, 1885
The President sent the following nomina-
tons to the Senate: Samuel N. Aldrich, of
Massachusetts, to be Assistant Treasurer at
Boston; John Il Mercer, of Iowa, to be Sur
veyor of Customs at Burlington, Iowa; Owen
McGloughlin, of Iowa, to be Surveyor of Gus
toms at Dubuque, Iowa: Arthur K Delaney,
of Wisconsin, to be Collector of Customs for
the District of Alaska; W. w. Armstrong, to
be Postmaster at Cleveland.
The bill conferrlng municipal suffrage
upon women, passed by the Kansas Legisla-
ture, has received the approving signature OF
the Governor and is now a law of that State. A
similar bill! has passed the New York Senate
by a vote of 20 to 8.
The President has nominated the follow
ing postmasters for Illinois,: Martin v. Smith,
at Moreyson; Joel H. Johnson, at Woodstock
Sumner r Sanderson, at Plano; Robert S.
Randall, at Bushnell, and Jonas w. Olson, al
Galva.
The Delaware House of Representatives
has passed a bill prohibiting the manufacture
and sale of oleomargerine.
The vote for Mayor at Philadelphia on the
10th was as follows: Filler, Republican, co.
4Y7; Keim, Democrat, 62,2o4, and Phillips
Labor, 1,644; Filters plurality, q, 2a93.